I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to my race - and tell a story well.

And for the people who promote drones as the answer to everything, there is a danger from being distanced from the reality of the ugly mess of war.

Having been in the military myself, there is an awful moment when you're in this moment of conflict.

Hany Abu-Assad was sitting next to me, and his film 'Paradise Now' had won the Golden Globe. He said to me at the Globes, 'Paradise now, talk to you later.' [laughs] I gave him a big hug for that.

One reads many scripts, and some of them are good and some of them are not, but every now and then, one really grabs you. You simply can't put it down.

I love meeting new people I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

The end goal is to become FIFA Women's Player of the Year.

For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

The truly humble feel the ground beneath their feet every day and do not only become aware of it when held aloft or pushed down to their knees.

No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim.

I was there in the beginning and I was the spirit of love.

All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.

Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.